Richard Bristow (1538 at Worcester – 1581 at Harrow on the Hill in London, UK) was an English Catholic controversialist and Biblical scholar.
In 1566, he and Edmund Campion were chosen to hold a public disputation before Queen Elizabeth I of England.
After studying theology, Sir William Petre recommended him for a Fellowship at Exeter College; he became a Fellow in 1567.
[1] At this time the Reformation had taken hold in England and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I had reigned for almost ten years.
Bristow is well known as an earnest student, a powerful controversial writer and, with Allen, William Reynolds and Thomas Worthington, as one of the revisers of the Douay-Rheims Bible for Catholic readers.